Spring Break...

We're finally done with the first term... Thursday was our last day of exams, we had to make Mayo, Hollandaise and a mystery curve ball.  Chef allowed us to get our mise en place all set except for getting the ingredients.  He gave us the recipe for the mayo and hollandaise the day before and told us that we were to have only the recipe and no procedures on the card.  So on the day of, he lines us up and has us show him our recipe cards and upon his approval had us start cooking... still there was someone with procedures on their card.  Some people even showed up without writing anything out and had no clue... Needless to say they were a little behind on the game.  Chef told us he wasn't even going to taste the mayo and hollandaise.  What he was going to taste the Curve  ball.  He set the clock for 20 mins and off we were like busy little bees.  

I get up to the ingredients table, grabbed my stuff and OOPS  Ugh!!! I drop my eggs on the floor.  Grrrr... Scrambled around cleaning up the mess as the clock is ticking.  Boo.   Thank Goodness I make mayo all the time at home and I watched the Hollandaise vid the night before.  So I knocked those out and "Ready Chef!" before the buzzer went off.  So a few of us are waiting for the buzzer then it goes off and he says... "I want you to make 1/4 cup of Vinaigrette".  @@ OMG I had a total brain melt down and had no clue what he was talking about, I swear I think he must have said it in Greek .  I knew that I Knew what the ratio was and how to make it but I was so fully blanked out.  I looked at Thomas, No Talking, and whispered, OMG I can't remember the ratio, do you remember?  He looks at me and just nodded and hummed MMHM and I stood there, and stood there and BING the light finally came on.  I mean, Literally it was like an epiphany and the Angels were singing the ratio to me lol...  So off I went with my measuring spoons and bowl. 3 to 1 Oo 3 what to 1 what? 30 seconds go by and  BING again lol. So I measured out my dressing, TAAT salt, herb and lemon TAAT and "Ready Chef!" 

Chef checked out my stuff and yay 38/40 was my score for cooking.   Clean up time was a little daunting with all the cooking implements that were used, and the other half of the class deck brushing and off behind me at the computer is the Chef saying "LEAVE ME ALONE!!!"   LOL He was trying to enter everyones grades and told people to leave him alone before everything started but as we all know there is Always that "Special" someone that fails at absorbing instructions lol...

So finally he passes out our reports/grades for Cuisine Foundations for the term.  We sign one copy for him and get the other for our records.  Then Chef D comes in and it's time for the Servsafe test.  We took our term final the day before but the Servsafe is like the King of Foodhandlers Card.  I took my time.  I always take my time because those questions are sometimes worded where if you're not paying attention it's so close to the right answer that you mark the wrong one.  And then finally I finished.  Turned in my tests and got my final grade for Sanitations. 

As most of you know, my Facebook friends, I was happy to announce going away with As in both classes but not only that but I can hold my head up and say that along the top of both Grade reports was a little sentence that informed me that I had the highest grade scores in class.  These are the times when I miss my Mom and Dad but I know that it's because of them that the BING of lights came on in my brain.  Thank the Lord for Guardian Angels...

I walked out of the school, Happy as can be, put my bags in the car, took out the phone and called Darcy with my good news, then called Sadie, my sister, to make arrangements to go out for a celebratory dinner.

Next term we'll be Cooking like mad chickens but until then I'm going to Enjoy Spring Break.  Going to go to TX and check out their Renaissance Faire with good friends.

That's my blip for my BFFs today.